Somoto
Somoto is a city and a municipality located in the hills of northern Nicaragua, and capital of the department of Madriz. It is around 20 km south-west of Ocotal and 51 km north-west of Estelí.
- Type: City with 20,900 residents
- Description: municipality of Nicaragua
- Also known as: “Chhiūⁿ Somoto”, “Cidade de Somoto”, “Città di Somoto”, “City of Somoto”, “Ciudad de Somoto”, “Comune di Somoto”, “Đô thị Somoto”, “Gemeente Somoto”, “Gemeinde Somoto”, “Gmina Somoto”, “Kommun Somoto”, “Město Somoto”, “Miasto Somoto”, “Municipalité de Somoto”, “Municipality of Somoto”, “Municipio de Somoto”, “Município de Somoto”, “Munisipyo sa Somoto”, “Obec Somoto”, “Somoto (comune)”, “Somoto (đô thị)”, “Somoto (gemeente)”, “Somoto (gmina)”, “Somoto (kommun)”, “Somoto (municipalité)”, “Somoto (Municipio)”, “Somoto (município)”, “Somoto (udalerria)”, “Somoto (δήμος)”, “Somoto (муниципалитет)”, “Somoto chhiūⁿ”, “Somoto kommun”, “Somoto Municipality”, “Somoto nga Munisipyo”, “Somoto, Madriz”, “Somoto（市镇）”, “Somoto（自治体）”, “Somotoko udalerria”, “Somoto市镇”, “Somoto自治体”, “Stad Somoto”, “Staden Somoto”, “Stadt Somoto”, “Villa de Santiago de los Caballeros de Somoto Grande”, “Xomotepetl”, “Δήμος Somoto”, “Δήμος Σομότο”, “Πόλη Σομότο”, “горад Сомота”, “город Сомото”, “град Сомото”, “місто Сомото”, “Муниципалитет Somoto”, “муниципалитет Сомото”, “муніципалітет Сомото”, “муніцыпалітэт Сомота”, “община Сомото”, “општина Сомото”, “სომოტო მუნიციპალიტეტი”, “ქალაქი სომოტო”, “Սոմոտո համայնք”, “Սոմոտո քաղաք”, “עיר סומוטו”, “רשות מקומית סומוטו”, “بلدية سوموتو”, “بلدیہ سوموٹو”, “شهرداری سوموتو”, “شہر سوموٹو”, “مدينة سوموتو”, “सोमोटो नगरपालिका”, “सोमोटो शहर”, “সোমোতো পৌরসভা”, “সোমোতো শহর”, “સોમોટો નગરપાલિકા”, “સોમોટો શહેર”, “சோமோட்டோ நகரம்”, “சோமோட்டோ நகராட்சி”, “సోమోటో నగరం”, “సోమోటో పురపాలక సంఘం”, “ಸೊಮೊಟೊ ನಗರ”, “ಸೊಮೊಟೊ ನಗರಪಾಲಿಕೆ”, “සොමොටෝ නගර සභාව”, “සොමොටෝ නගරය”, “เทศบาลโซโมโต”, “เมืองโซโมโต”, “소모토 시”, “소모토 지방자치단체”, “ソモト市”, “ソモト自治体”, “索莫托市”, “索莫托市鎮”, and “索莫托市镇”
Somoto
- Categories: municipality of Nicaragua and locality
- Location: Madriz Department, Northern Highlands, Nicaragua, Central America, North America
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Latitude
13.4837° or 13° 29′ 1″ north
Longitude
-86.5826° or 86° 34′ 57″ west
Population
20,900
Elevation
683 metres (2,241 feet)
UN/LOCODE
NI SOM
Open location code
765MFCM8+FX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Welsh—“Somoto” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሶሞቶ”
- Arabic: “سوموتو”
- Armenian: “Սոմոտո”
- Asturian: “Somoto”
- Azerbaijani: “Somoto”
- Basque: “Somoto”
- Belarusian: “Самота”
- Belarusian: “Сомота”
- Bengali: “সোমোটো”
- Bengali: “সোমোতো”
- Bulgarian: “Сомото”
- Catalan: “Somoto”
- Cebuano: “Somoto”
- Chinese: “索莫托”
- Czech: “Somoto”
- Danish: “Somoto”
- Dimli (individual language): “Somoto, Madriz”
- Dimli (individual language): “Somoto”
- Dutch: “Somoto”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سوموتو”
- Esperanto: “Somoto”
- Finnish: “Somoto”
- French: “Somoto”
- Georgian: “სომოტო”
- German: “Somoto”
- Greek: “Σομότο”
- Gujarati: “સોમોટો”
- Hausa: “Somoto”
- Hebrew: “סומוטו”
- Hindi: “सोमोटो”
- Indonesian: “Somoto”
- Italian: “Somoto”
- Japanese: “ソモト”
- Javanese: “Somoto”
- Kannada: “ಸೊಮೊಟೊ”
- Kazakh: “Сомото”
- Kirghiz: “Сомото”
- Korean: “소모토”
- Latin: “Somotus”
- Latvian: “Somota”
- Latvian: “Somoto”
- Lithuanian: “Somotas”
- Macedonian: “Сомото”
- Malay: “Somoto”
- Marathi: “सोमोटो”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Somoto”
- Moksha: “Сомота”
- Moksha: “Сомото”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Somoto”
- Oromo: “Somoto”
- Ossetian: “Сомото”
- Panjabi: “ਸੋਮੋਟੋ”
- Persian: “سوموتو”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Somoto”
- Polish: “Somoto”
- Portuguese: “Somoto”
- Pushto: “سوموتو”
- Russian: “Сомото”
- Serbian: “Сомото”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Somoto”
- Sinhala: “සොමොටෝ”
- Slovenian: “Somoto”
- Somali: “Somoto”
- Spanish: “Somoto”
- Swahili: “Somoto”
- Swedish: “Somoto”
- Tajik: “Сомото”
- Tamil: “சோமோடோ”
- Tatar: “Сомото”
- Telugu: “సోమోటో”
- Thai: “โซโมโต”
- Turkish: “Somoto”
- Ukrainian: “Сомото”
- Urdu: “سوموتو، مادریس”
- Urdu: “سوموٹو”
- Uzbek: “Somoto”
- Vietnamese: “Somoto”
- Welsh: “Somoto”
- “Somoto”
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